We are not weird, just passonate about Open Source. Actually, to be honest, having some type of penguin stuff animal or sign at our work desks can be a good conversation starter for Linux, Open Source Packages, and even LO. Instead of you coming to them, they come to you and would not be concidered rude on your side to answer questions when they come to you.
The Penguin Defence Squad poster was just something to give others a good laugh. Well, to be perfectly honest, it is weird for us to . . . . 1 - want to pay for an operating system for our computers, if we get a good one for free. 2 - want to pay for an office suite when you can get a good one for free - think LO 3 - want to deal with all of the crashes and other stability issues 4 - want to have the OS "type" that runs most of the Internet and other "must be up 99.99% of the time" servers? 5 - want to have the freedom to choose what the desktop environment will look like - Untiy, KDE, MATE, and a whole lot of others - instead of what some big company boss decides you must like. It is called Freedom by the way more and more industries are moving over to Linux as their primary business systems, desktop and server, and dropping MS products, after MS decided that everyone wanted those little tiles on your computer and many other things that businesses really do not want. Would you have 10+ windows open and on the screen or minimized to the "tray"? When I work, I tend to have many windows open at the same time, or minimized so I can interact with all them creating my documents. Last Time I tried it on Windows, Vista or Win7, it was a nightmare. I really love Ubuntu Linux over Windows 7. I started using Linux when I could not find a free Windows package to do what I needed after the Windows package crashed and would not allow me to reinstall it. I have been using it as my default desktop since early spring of 2010. I have all my Windows laptops dual booting to Ubuntu as well. There are something I need Windows for, but I rarely use it more than a few times a month. Yes, we are weird, but it is a good weird. On 10/05/2013 07:44 AM, Virgil Arrington wrote: > These two messages 'splain a lot. You Linux dudes are really weird. ;) > > Virgil > > -----Original Message----- From: Kracked_P_P---webmaster > Sent: Friday, October 04, 2013 8:53 PM > To: users@global.libreoffice.org > Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Corrupt Installer Errors?? > > > I collect every non-movie-character penguin stuffed animal as I can > find. I think they are cute, for some odd reason. > > Still, it would be interesting to see more Tux Penguin "items" being > sold somewhere so you could have a "Tux" on your desk or door, or > somewhere. Then if the ask why you have a pengiun there, you could tell > them. Actually, I found severl hundred penguin images that have the > character dressed in super hero and other "costumes". I even have a > self made poster stating that my place is defended by a Penguin Defence > Squad with about a dozen costume character penguines that are dresses in > such a way that I would not want to have a bunch of humans dress liked > that I had to go up against, even if a few look more Halloween costume > than real type people would wear. > > > > > On 10/04/2013 11:09 AM, Tom Davies wrote: >> Hi :) >> Maybe consider being nice to them and getting a cute cuddly penguin >> as a present. Also see if you can spot anyone that already has a >> penguin on their desk as they might be more amenable to using >> OpenSource software. >> >> Personally i tend to hate cute and cuddly things but even so if it >> was a penguin that would make me smile. Penguins are so cool, >> especially Tux >> Regards from >> Tom :) >> >> >> >> >> ________________________________ >> From: contrazz <dig...@contrawise.net> >> To: users@global.libreoffice.org >> Sent: Wednesday, 2 October 2013, 4:59 >> Subject: [libreoffice-users] Re: Corrupt Installer Errors?? >> >> >> Wow! >> Nice thread hijack, folks! >> >From busted downloads to nefarious Wi-Fi in three easy steps! >> >> My company's firewall doesn't allow torrent downloads. >> >> I never use IE unless it's the only option. >> I used Firefox and Chrome - with identical, broken results. >> Eventually, I took one of the computers off-site, and immediately got >> a good >> download. . >> Back inside the perimeter, another try yielded another broken file. >> I'll grouch to my IT crew about it tomorrow. >> >> Hope y'all have fun with the Wi-Fi thread ... ! >> >> >> >> -- >> View this message in context: >> http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Corrupt-Installer-Errors-tp4075791p4075945.html >> Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >> > > -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
